They had a few ideas there, like SIPS. Although I don't know whether the bars specifically did very much. Saving the car from collapse here is most likely the roll cage. I do not want to downplay Volvo's commitment to safety, however.
This was my era of BTCC and was great to watch , This years BTCC,2018, has shown me that now they have some competitive racing again , it will never compare to the glory days but def heading in right direction.
Lovely stuff. Those Audi A4's courted quite a bit of controversy that season though with their Quattro system. Just like Alfa Romeo did back in the day with the spoilergate fiasco
Blaaaaaaddy hell this was a trip down memory lane! Anyone remember that btcc racing game with tiff’s voice on it… I remember all the drivers from that game. Those Renaults were iconic. All the cars were tbh… great vid. Thanks 🙏🏻 so
You just couldn't beat the BTCC back in the day. Best racing in the world IMO. You need nerves of steal to even get in to one of those cars let alone be in a race!!!
Fantastic era for the touring car championship with all the works teams and heroic drivers too. The accident between Smokin Jo, Menu and Hoy at Thruxton really is a hilarious accident. It looks almost impossible for that to be the outcome lol. Menu on the radio was priceless as well. He declares it was the BMW that pushed him off, but thought his teammate was the one who started it. Winkelhock obviously didn’t think it was his fault either judging by how annoyed he was afterwards. To me it looked like Menu actually caused the first pincer movement, just before the cars go out of shot? Also, can anyone identify what caused the pile up at Brands Hatch? No cars actually collided with Menu or Ravaglia after they spun going down the hill. It looks to me as if one of the factory Vauxhalls (so either Thompson or Cleland) makes a sudden jink to the right for no apparent reason while going down the hill and this caused the tenpin effect. Goodness knows what caused the “pea souper” in the mondeo haha
When the cars were what it said on the tin! Not like today's homogeneous steel cages with a manufacturer's tin work draped over it! I still remember the glory days of Ford Sierra, one, two, three and then a load more behind them. Good old Volvo 850, built like a tank, and a bit of a handful in the corners, but generally not bad. Just a pity that Volvo dropped out before they could make a real impact on BTCC, when it was still British Saloon Car Racing. Good old Murray Walker too, back in the day when he commentated on all aspects of motor sports.
Agree DQ its nice being able to stand at the Esses now, in the 90s wasn't really possible but tracks too long now. We used to watch at Coram into the old Russell Chicane what fab times.
1994 season probably the last great season . before all this aerodynamic b/s kicked in , i remember alfa romeo starting it all with their rear wing grrrrr but that 95 bmw sounds amazing.
Seems like yesterday. I can't believe this was some 24 years ago. The Audis were the class act. But were always given weight ballast, because they were deemed to have four wheel drive advantage.
The golden era was amazing without the weight ballast restricting, the reverse grids and the stupid, idiotic rules they have now. Pure racing, great cars and magical times for the BTCC. Super tourer era was the best, understand they had to cut costs but the restrictions of racing in touring cars turned many fans away from 2000 since the super touring era.
Unfortunately, those Audis had to eventually take ballast. Their four wheel drive was considered too much of an advantage over the others running two wheel drive.
You need to broaden your vocabulary. How about Murray Walker is an (incredible, amazing, awesome, extraordinary, prodigious) legend. Choose any one of the above and drop the unnecessary obscenity.
That impact that kelvin burt had at Oulton park is just absolutely sickening to see..even 3 decades later....the super tourers were bloody fabulous..thank goodness we had Murray walker commenting!
In the 90s and early 2000s, I was a huge motorsport fan and watched lots of racing series, especially touring cars, formula 1, NASCAR etc. Today, I don´t watch anything anymore besides MotoGP (which is still great). Times just have changed to the worse. Racing isn´t exciting anymore. Cars are just plastic cans and prototypes with too much aerodynamics and racing isn´t thrilling, but just boring.
Hopefully the new regulations in WEC and F1 will be help make racing more exciting again. I wish I could watch Moto GP and Australian Supercar Championship, but I don't have their subscriptions.
rose tinted glasses. in 2019 we had one of the most exciting F1 seasons in years and the WTCR finale in Malaysia was simply brilliant, nothing short of the supertouring era. also, with the new Hypercar regulations, WEC will rise again just like in the 90s.
I couldn't get why they were/are twitchy? You can push em with your thumb, easy. But there were 30-35 on a grid and extremely great drivers. Cheers for that, who can forget the alfa on two wheels sideways,,,,,, er tarquiny? and the pushthrough VOLVO-STUNNING DAYS
Jerk-off Winklehock....the fastest chin in BTCC. "DUMBKOPF" says Winklehock....class commentary by the late great Murry Walker. This year and the few previous were the best of the BTCC. Later years there was too much bumping and barging. If anybody wants to watch these classic years then Duke do them on DVD....Great competitive racing with a plethora of different manufacturers and no ballast, reberse grids or hybrid nonsense.
This is when touring cars was touring cars. Super tourers.
Agreed, not what we have now, its a shadow of what BTCC used to be
Same for DTM.
@Burt Sampson And WTCC/WTCR.
Still got alot of vedieo tapes of the propper btcc
Rest in peace Murray walker 1923-2021
If memory serves me right, the Volvo was the only car before this crash that had side impact bars. Thank goodness they did
Well Volvo focuses on safety
He was lucky it was RHD too, that was a big side impact
They had a few ideas there, like SIPS. Although I don't know whether the bars specifically did very much. Saving the car from collapse here is most likely the roll cage. I do not want to downplay Volvo's commitment to safety, however.
Side Impact Proctetion System.
At 5:15 you can see the interior of a Renault and can see a blue side bar on the lower right across the doorway
One of the few moments in time when a category had it just right. This was a great era for touring cars .
5:05
I like how Murray says "A bit of light engineering now" as the guy is hammering the bodywork back into shape.
Loved it when they put Murray Walker and Charlie Cox together.
In the folk race series in Denmark, someone hammering away with a sledgehammer on their car is refered to as "use of precision tools"...
Percussive maintenance....😁
Probably my favourite class and era of motorsport, full stop, great memories.
Really like the sound of these 2 liter naturally aspirated engines, with around 300 hp.
These really were the days in Touring cars :)
Not as crazy as those Grp A racers
@@AnthroGearhead better racing though
Yes
300 bhp? your of your rocker, the ford put out well over 500 Bhp and was capable of well north of 175mph
Well the Group A Sierra Cosworths were turbocharged, these ones are not...
Super Touring, and Murray Walker in the commentary box. Golden era of motorsport.
A match made in heaven, what a time we got to live eh 👍🏼
Love this Era of Touring cars :)
As an Aussie, I loved BTCC, growing up. Murray's voice is timeless. I loved Alain Menu and Jason Plato as drivers.
Those MK1 Renault Lagunas looked fantastic as Touring Cars
Most cars of this era looked good.
Even the Primera ,Mondeo Peugeot and the Accord.
Also some pretty mental power there on FWD cars as well.
There wasn't a bad looking 90's touring car, in my opinion.
Revalia didnt agree lmao, spent a lot of time trying to take them out
My mum and dad had one when I was a boy, we always played as the laguna on TOCA Touring Cars on the PlayStation. M640 AOT. Even remember the reg😂
this was the only track racing i followed religiously. it was so much fun to watch always things happening
This was my era of BTCC and was great to watch , This years BTCC,2018, has shown me that now they have some competitive racing again , it will never compare to the glory days but def heading in right direction.
God i miss Super Touring cars, pure racing with international drivers. The car were monsters too
"This is Radisich, there's a pea-souper inside his Ford Mondeo" a brilliant line from Murray Walker, telling it exactly like it is.
Those were the days! Miss the old touring cars and rivalries.
I miss this on TV on a Saturday afternoon on Grandstand ,in between the horse racing and the football results
The most exciting era of touring cars by far
Love these touring cars and stars of 90's - Love Winklehoff giving hand manking sign to biela at 0:44 and Murray Walkers excellent commentary
TOCA 1 gameplay also was awesome (as reality was) forever in my mind and heart
Super Era of Super Touring Cars
1:31 Love the fact that the safety car was a Jaaaaaaaag
That was entertainment! Loved watching that on the TV back in the day!
Murray Walker commentating on BTCC was ace.
When you look in your mirror and a Volvo 850 is breathing down your neck on a race track :D
Fantastic memories, thanks for the compilation.
This is what racing was all about the btcc in the 90’s !
James Thompson saying his cars “scrap” love it
Murray Walker was and always will be the voice of Motorsport
80s and 90s: the best era of Motorsport 😍
Smokin' Jo, Crashdisich and others, the good days.
“Dumkopf he says”!🤣 God love you Murray!
golden times
This is absolute gold! What a championship
love seeing volvos go fast
90s touring cars rocked.
Lovely stuff. Those Audi A4's courted quite a bit of controversy that season though with their Quattro system. Just like Alfa Romeo did back in the day with the spoilergate fiasco
I STILL LOVE WATCHING BTCC BUT BACK IN THE DAY IT WAS SO MUCH MORE EXCITING
Blaaaaaaddy hell this was a trip down memory lane! Anyone remember that btcc racing game with tiff’s voice on it… I remember all the drivers from that game. Those Renaults were iconic. All the cars were tbh… great vid. Thanks 🙏🏻 so
3:39 - not Leslie's finest maneuver...
BTCC from this time period and V8 supercars 😊
You just couldn't beat the BTCC back in the day. Best racing in the world IMO. You need nerves of steal to even get in to one of those cars let alone be in a race!!!
90s BTCC was the best ever!
These drivers were insane.
2:27 it's funny how two Renault trying to sandwich BMW but at the end its both Renault get off the track first
Best Time of Touringcars ❤
BTCC and the STW
more action in 6 minutes of btcc,. than in 6 years of f1,..
When I go karting I hear his voice commentating in my head, rest easy Murray. 1923-2021 🕊
Proper Big Boys racing. A cast of legends including the great Murray Walker.
Menu lied about getting hit from behind then.
Smoking Jo Winkelhock mixing it up at his best. There was no medium ground - he won or he was involved in a collision :D
Top drivers, top cars, top show. That was Btcc
Great great stuff!
that poor 850 :'( and burt lol
True but it's because it was a Volvo that was the reason Kelvin Burt wasn't killed. Built like tanks made even more solid by the roll cage
@@andrewdrabble8939 he had a serious eye injury, because of that,if me memory is correct
@@chrismoore5206 You may be thinking of James Thompson from 1995.
Kelvin missed Snetterton and was back at Brands Hatch
That's one of those where, as soon as you know where you're heading, time goes reeeeaaaal slow.
Had he hit that barrier on the drivers side I doubt he would have survived. Very lucky boy.
Radisich was awesome. He had so much bad luck and still managed to win.
Fantastic era for the touring car championship with all the works teams and heroic drivers too.
The accident between Smokin Jo, Menu and Hoy at Thruxton really is a hilarious accident. It looks almost impossible for that to be the outcome lol. Menu on the radio was priceless as well. He declares it was the BMW that pushed him off, but thought his teammate was the one who started it. Winkelhock obviously didn’t think it was his fault either judging by how annoyed he was afterwards. To me it looked like Menu actually caused the first pincer movement, just before the cars go out of shot?
Also, can anyone identify what caused the pile up at Brands Hatch? No cars actually collided with Menu or Ravaglia after they spun going down the hill. It looks to me as if one of the factory Vauxhalls (so either Thompson or Cleland) makes a sudden jink to the right for no apparent reason while going down the hill and this caused the tenpin effect.
Goodness knows what caused the “pea souper” in the mondeo haha
Best years of btcc.
When the cars were what it said on the tin! Not like today's homogeneous steel cages with a manufacturer's tin work draped over it!
I still remember the glory days of Ford Sierra, one, two, three and then a load more behind them.
Good old Volvo 850, built like a tank, and a bit of a handful in the corners, but generally not bad. Just a pity that Volvo dropped out before they could make a real impact on BTCC, when it was still British Saloon Car Racing.
Good old Murray Walker too, back in the day when he commentated on all aspects of motor sports.
Nothing can stop the winkelrock!
Classic touring cars love it
Oh I do remember all this. Love it
No idea what happened at Brands but just a big cluster feck!
These were indeed golden times and I miss the sport as it was :(
The golden age of BTCC
I miss the old Snetterton
Agree DQ its nice being able to stand at the Esses now, in the 90s wasn't really possible but tracks too long now. We used to watch at Coram into the old Russell Chicane what fab times.
That was the days of the true BTCC great cars not the hot hatches they race nowadays.
this is a real race.
Thompson at the end, is your scrap? Yeah. Lol
That Volvo ripped that barrier a new one😂
The era where all cars were lovely..
850 estate, a4, e36, laguna, accord baaically all cars were great car in this series
The GOAT era of BTCC.
BTCC 1990s the best car model ever 🔥
Murray Walker, what a legend! I remember that crash, was super scary.
Winkelhock crash compilation
Love all of this video. Cheers
I remember the Burt crash. Just wow.
Electric cars will never replace the Real cars the sound gears screaming just awesome ! 👏🏴👍🏻😉
1994 season probably the last great season . before all this aerodynamic b/s kicked in , i remember alfa romeo starting it all with their rear wing grrrrr but that 95 bmw sounds amazing.
No way
Was good right up to 1999
Seems like yesterday. I can't believe this was some 24 years ago. The Audis were the class act. But were always given weight ballast, because they were deemed to have four wheel drive advantage.
The golden era was amazing without the weight ballast restricting, the reverse grids and the stupid, idiotic rules they have now. Pure racing, great cars and magical times for the BTCC. Super tourer era was the best, understand they had to cut costs but the restrictions of racing in touring cars turned many fans away from 2000 since the super touring era.
Unfortunately, those Audis had to eventually take ballast. Their four wheel drive was considered too much of an advantage over the others running two wheel drive.
Absolutely pure racing of Super Touring Cars.
@@sonicstep Yeah true and probably because why they change the rules to everyone having 4 wheel drive after 1996. Still the best era of touring cars.
Murray Walker is a fucking legend
You need to broaden your vocabulary. How about Murray Walker is an (incredible, amazing, awesome, extraordinary, prodigious) legend. Choose any one of the above and drop the unnecessary obscenity.
Murray walker only one bloke I liked listening to more was Barry sheen
They were both absolutely fantastic
Demo derby car racing at is best 👍👍😍😍
When Btcc ruled.
I have memory with volvo 850 btcc rydell..swedish motor assemblies
Where's the track in the first clip,I don't recognize it...
These were the days when every manufacturer wanted in. Today we've got maybe 2 works teams.
That impact that kelvin burt had at Oulton park is just absolutely sickening to see..even 3 decades later....the super tourers were bloody fabulous..thank goodness we had Murray walker commenting!
In the 90s and early 2000s, I was a huge motorsport fan and watched lots of racing series, especially touring cars, formula 1, NASCAR etc. Today, I don´t watch anything anymore besides MotoGP (which is still great). Times just have changed to the worse. Racing isn´t exciting anymore. Cars are just plastic cans and prototypes with too much aerodynamics and racing isn´t thrilling, but just boring.
Hopefully the new regulations in WEC and F1 will be help make racing more exciting again. I wish I could watch Moto GP and Australian Supercar Championship, but I don't have their subscriptions.
rose tinted glasses. in 2019 we had one of the most exciting F1 seasons in years and the WTCR finale in Malaysia was simply brilliant, nothing short of the supertouring era. also, with the new Hypercar regulations, WEC will rise again just like in the 90s.
Watching this on Saturdays or sundays on itv in the mid 90s was the best
@@asurada999 exciting 2019 season of F1 racing??
Are you for real ?
@@davidd1345 yes
Volvo, the best sounding Touring car ever in my opinion.
that 850 has a lotta damage
But kelvin Burt didn't.
More carnage than watching banger racing from Wimbledon?😂😂😂
Absolute carnage love it
Smokin' Jo playing in the dust...
One thing was nothing to discuss about: when a Volvo 850 tank lost controll, you better get out of the way!
I couldn't get why they were/are twitchy? You can push em with your thumb, easy. But there were 30-35 on a grid and extremely great drivers. Cheers for that, who can forget the alfa on two wheels sideways,,,,,, er tarquiny? and the pushthrough VOLVO-STUNNING DAYS
Green flag TOCA Touring cars with Tiffany Nidel.
Three into one doesn’t go!
2:12-2:40 was incredible
Frank biela nice
HAHAHA "Wanker"hock. I think we all know what the Winkelrock was telling us about Biela
@@GarrishChristopherRobin777 That was Manfred, and a good ten years before this race. This is Manfred's brother, Joachim, 1996.
A question: Why did some BTCC cars have the steering wheel on the right side, while other cars had it on the left side?
I'm gonna guess it's because the ones from the UK are RHD and the ones from Europe are LHD.
Jerk-off Winklehock....the fastest chin in BTCC. "DUMBKOPF" says Winklehock....class commentary by the late great Murry Walker.
This year and the few previous were the best of the BTCC. Later years there was too much bumping and barging. If anybody wants to watch these classic years then Duke do them on DVD....Great competitive racing with a plethora of different manufacturers and no ballast, reberse grids or hybrid nonsense.
total carnage loved watching this back in the 90s now euro is turning lesbian by going electric racing is over